About the Book: Territorial Changes and Territorial Restructurings in the
Himalayas
The book focuses on current territory-making in the light of legacies, chiefly
on claims to territories based oil ethnicity and on indigeneity. The authors
explain how some of these claims find their roots in policies implemented at the
time of British rule. They highlight the ambiguities in the various claims and
the difficulties in implementing them. The second part of the book deals with
territories of modernity, territories of exclusion. On the one hand, it
addresses the emergence of new territories associated with development
programmes and shows the difference between various conceptions of territory and
of resources.